Quotes About Perception

Most people thought Gomer was stupid, dumb, a real klutz. But you study him, he really wasn't any of those things. Gomer just didn't want to see bad in anybody; you could never get him mad.

All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

I always liked the 'Mad Men' philosophy where people don't really change.

To be quite honest, my fans growing up were my friends' parents. Like, 30-plus was, like, 'Mad Men' age group.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

It takes madness to find out madness.

It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness.

I find it hard to believe when people tell me I inspired them in any kind of way because I think to myself, 'well, why?' It's just me - not Madonna.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.

People didn't know I played guitar on all the hit records I had. I've never been in an acoustic guitar magazine and I'd put myself up against anybody.

I never saw anyone my size in magazines when I was younger.

It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines.

I really don't believe in magic.

L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

I don't like magic.

You want there to be some magical answer that will just make everything clear and easy to understand, and that's just not the way love works.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

Great liars are also great magicians.